The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...with a token number of Black students to deflect federal scrutiny, and that increasingly professed nonracial reasons for their practices, often citing religion. Many headmasters of the “segregation academies” by...
"We're Almost There": The Drive-By Truckers' Art of Place
...American Routes' Nick Spitzer interviews Mike Cooley, Shonna Tucker, and Patterson Hood, February 9, 2011. http://americanroutes.publicradio.org/player/playlist/25905/hour1 Musically, over the last several years, the Truckers have been coming home more often....
The Bulletin—November 15, 2012
...his 2005 Southern Spaces presentation "White Flight: The Strategies, Ideology, and Legacy of Segregationists in Atlanta." Post-election conversation has also focused on the continued dominance of the Republican Party in...
Memorializing the Freedom Riders
...to end segregation—before the fiftieth anniversary of the bus burning occurs in 2011. A racially violent past is best addressed not by erasing its traces on the landscape, but by...
Reconsidering Appalachian Studies
...varying scholarly norms and expectations, the field has to strive for the best understanding and interpretation of the region and people. Appalachia deserves no less. Despite these problems, could it be...
The X-Codes: A Post-Katrina Postscript
...numbers and letters in each quadrant of the X, recorded coded information. Later, as I recalled my odyssey through drowned areas of the city, I kept returning to that visual...
Category 3 Gentrification: On New Orleans's Population Trends and the Hostility of Internet Commenters
...generally poor and African American residents. He posits a four-phase cycle, each phase representing a different influx of people into a particular neighborhood, each phase a wave carrying with it...
Nostalgia May Not Be the Right Word
...is the author of fourteen books of poetry, most recently Terroir, 2011. He has also published nine volumes of fiction, including Gap Creek, a New York Times bestseller. A sequel...
Mississippi as Metaphor State, Region, and Nation in Historical Imagination
...America writ large: did the “Mississippi Plan” become the American way? Part 4: Dr. Crespino analyzes the role of the scapegoat metaphor of Mississippi as “innocent victim” in segregationist politics Part...
Public Health in the US and Global South
...hit African Americans especially hard. Widespread poverty for generations following Reconstruction exposed hundreds of thousands of poor, rural southerners to hookworm infection and pellagra. By the end of the nineteenth...